Dramatic Wind aside, in a Fight Scene, a battle can be made so much easier if your movements are being concealed (foot-work, on-coming punches, etc.). Also, there's a sadistic joy to be taken from unnerving an enemy who can't see the damage he does nor the point he's aiming at. Suffice it to say, a person in a robe is an enigma both in battle and outside of it.

As per Rule of Cool, this can be used to produce many impressive visual effects: anytime this character jumps (usually from a great height), they'll appear to have wings; when the character spins, they'll take on the look of a violently twisting spiral; when they dash or rush forward, they look like a human bullet.

Examples:

The Akatsuki of Naruto. And just to show how powerful the Badass Longrobe really is, Akatsuki members tend to die not long after ditching their robes. (Of course, most of their on-screen battles are against the main characters and hence fatal, so it's possible they often lose their robes whatever the outcome.)

ANBU Black Ops sometimes wear long hooded capes. There is also an armless cloak for ordinary shinobi, which has the advantage of concealing your hand-signs.

Arguably, the formal garb for a Kage counts. Bonus points for the Nice Hat. Minato Namikaze and (briefly and later as Seventh Hokage) Naruto both sport particularly badass long robes with flame designs on them.

Naruto's full Rikudou/Kyuubi form has a cloak made of chakra which resembles that of the Sage of the Six Paths. It is so potently badass that Kakashi thinks he just saw his long-dead sensei, Minato.

Subverted in Ranma ½. Mousse routinely wears long Chinese robes as his signature outfit, and his first appearance makes him out as strong and capable. Then something goofy happens (in the manga, the concrete roller he sliced in half falls on his head and knocks him out, in the anime, he starts wolfing down the bowl of ramen he just did an acrobatic routine with without spilling) and his Badass Cred is gone in an instant, firmly establishing him as something of the Butt-Monkey. Shinnosuke seems to be a Badass marital artist in a janitor's uniform who is a master of fighting with a pushbroom... but he has such a horrible memory he just keeps making an idiot of himself by, say, stumbling headfirst into his own boobytraps.

Prince Of Orphans of Marvel's Immortal Iron Fist. The second arc was about a tournament between the Seven Cities of Heaven and their Immortal Weapons. Since it happens only once every seventy-seven years, and the weapons themselves aren't immortal (just the title and post, it seems), certain things are expected. However, one of the combatants defies them: he was at the last tournament, and if anything he's even more dangerous, and the heavy favorite. He mostly keeps to himself, and wears an all-concealing, plain, heavy brown robe. May actually be a minor subversion, as while he's certainly still wearing the robe when he fights, he turns into omnipresent green mist that seems to beat the shit out of his opponent from all sides.

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Tales of the Undiscovered Swords: Nikkō Ichimonji's battle attire is that of a Miko, even coming with a sheer overgarment called chihaya◊. It is at first acknowledged in-narrative as to be somewhat unsuitable for combat, befitting his origin as a shrine offering, but later falls squarely into this territory.

Film

The Jedi Knights of Star Wars, naturally. Maybe most obvious in The Phantom Menace, although Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon, and Darth Maul all drop their long outer robes before the big fight.

The Emperor's personal guards look incredibly badass, even more so considering they go unused in the movies.

Banshees in Discworld appear like this; they're actually folded wings. Also subverted when Mr. Horsefry wears a cloak while sneaking over to the Big Bad, its noted by the Big Bad's servant how conspicuous it makes him look.

Lord Vetinari himself wears plain black robes, and can convey more Badass-edness with a sharp glance than most characters could with adamantium claws and a pulse rifle.

Mistborn wear a cloak made of multilayered strips of fabric called a Mistcloak. It's partially camoflage, but mostly it exists to look stylish and inform everyone in sight that the wearer is not to be messed with.

Cantus the Minstrel on Fraggle Rock wears a metallic, tie-dyed medieval robe, but the effect is more or less the same, as his badassery lies in his wisdom and quiet strength. He's also got the enigma thing down, many times over.

Lucien LaCroix of Forever Knight, in flashback scenes. And he's sometime's a Badass Longcoat in modern day. So is Nick Knight, for that matter, but Lucien is so much more badass.

While Badass is probably not the right word for it, Prior Walter from Angels in America does don a long black robe after the visit from the Angel, revealing him as "the Prophet".

Belize: "You look like Morticia Addams."

Prior: "Like the wrath of God."

Belize: "Yes."

Prior: "That is the intended effect."

Video Games

Lightning in the very beginning of Final Fantasy XIII sports a long robe, though this is technically subverted in that she is disguised as a victim of the Purge, and everyone around her who isn't a guard is also wearing one.

Many of the more expensive robes in Morrowind are decidedly elaborate.

Members of the Dark Brotherhood in Oblivion are given a moderately badass set of armor. The high-ranking members get robes with extra bonuses to the badass enchantments.

Mannimarco, the "King of Worms" and master Lich/Necromancer, makes several appearances throughout the series and is always outfitted in a badass black robe. It is at its most badass in his appearance in The Elder Scrolls Online.

Warhammer Online has the Warrior Priests and their Destruction equivalent, the Disciples of Khaine. Being that rare kind of healer that does its thing from melee, they certainly qualify for the badass denotation.

The Judgement Armor in World of Warcraft. Though it is now widely outdated, it's still considered one of the best looking armors in the game, but you see a lot of it thanks to transmogrification and ease of getting it, however. Death Knights also start with one, and many transmog their armor to a purple recolor of the Judgment set.

The Grand Finale introduced three new Badass Longrobe outfits in the Order of the White Lotus uniforms, Ozai's flamethrower-casual robes (before he burns them off to fight Aang), and Aang's monkly robes (not that Aang's previous, lower-key short robe didn't get plenty of rippling in the breeze).

A basic staple of Christian clergy especially Roman Catholic order. To the point practically almost every Medieval examples of Badass Preacher has them wearing it and even non-clergy often have their own personal Badass Long Robe when traveling the world as a devout Christian.

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